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Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Astronomer and blogger Dr. Phil Plait joins us to discuss science literacy.

Bought by KRZA, KPIP-LP, KKWE Niijii Radio, KMXT, and KPVL


  • Added: Dec 05, 2012
  • Length: 28:05
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Fred Kaufman
This week, along with the rest of the country, we'll be piling my plate high with abundant turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce and apple pie. It seem...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2012
  • Length: 30:00
Caption: Ken Burns
Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns has produced a new film series on the dustbowl. It features survivors, experts on climate and farming, as well as s...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2012
  • Length: 28:30
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The more our societies are in conversation, the more likely it is, when it comes to having to make the hard decisions that are involved in discussi...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2012
  • Length: 03:54
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Is it time to reform the U.S. electoral structure? Should more views be represented? Do narrow interests have too much power?

  • Added: Nov 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:03
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Listen back as KUT’s Rebecca McInroy talks about what it means to be “American” with UT Anthropology Professor John Hartigan, The Department Chair ...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2012
  • Length: 01:01:51
Caption: Neela Banerjee
Hurricane Sandy highlighted the devastating effects of a changing climate and rising sea levels like perhaps no other event we have seen in this co...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Frederick Kaufman
In the last five years the world has seen two devastating spikes in the price of food, and according to journalist and professor Frederick Kaufman,...

Bought by KZYX and KCBX


  • Added: Nov 01, 2012
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
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"I hope that world leaders will really sit down and think about the circumstances of those people who have been suffering for many years. Why can't...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2012
  • Length: 03:34
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Anti-gay legislation is garnering support in Ukraine and many other countries are backtracking on equal rights for homosexuals. Is there anything i...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Oct 24, 2012
  • Length: 02:05
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Tova Andrea Wang
In her new book, Tova Andrea Wang examines the history of how US election reforms have been manipulated for partisan advantage and establishes a ne...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 19, 2012
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
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"I would advise my dear intellectuals of this age and time and place to give us some good imagination, especially to the young people."

  • Added: Oct 17, 2012
  • Length: 04:26
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"There are things we can't do, even with all the power of the United States. But then we shouldn't hide from it. We shouldn't turn away and pretend...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2012
  • Length: 03:51
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"It is amazing that more than 2 billion people do not have access to electricity. All people equally have a right to have a very healthy and comfor...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2012
  • Length: 04:40
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"Moral leadership to me is about selflessness. But in a world of personal aggrandizement and short-term-ism, I do fear that we'll see less moral le...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 03:07
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"We may have globalization, we have more interconnectedness, lots of things are happening, more trade. But what's the moral compass? You have the f...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 02:58
Caption: Matt Wasson
Do you cringe when you hear the term “clean coal?” Our guest this week on Sea Change Radio feels that this term is not only an oxymoron it’s offens...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 30:01
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Radio Curious visits with Pulitzer Prize winner, Isabel Wilkerson, author of “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2012
  • Length: 29:02
Caption: Steve Almond
Magical thinking. According to the McGraw Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine, this is a condition, “similar to a normal stage of childhood ...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2012
  • Length: 28:16
Caption: Steve Almond
Author Steve Almond is an astute observer of American topics as disparate as candy, rock & roll and politics. This week on Sea Change Radio, in the...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2012
  • Length: 29:56
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We thought we finished our series on the ATC Charter Story, but...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2012
  • Length: 21:34
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In this show, we attempt to finish the ATC series...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2012
  • Length: 21:39
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On this show we hear Russell Caldwell, Davidson & Co. banker who put the ATC financing together, Jim Ford, an independent education and strategic p...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2012
  • Length: 19:36
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This story is about ATC, the Academy of Technology and the Classics charter school which decided to leave the building that many thought would be i...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2012
  • Length: 20:39
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Security experts have concluded that attacks on Iran will serve neither US nor Israeli goals. That’s also the position of Greg Thielmann of the Arm...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2012
  • Length: 28:44